*It’s too late to cry, alarm based on own analysis – Concerned Citizens
Like it used to happen while the sun of Saraki was still successfully shining in the Senate, the embattled Senate President had reportedly attempted on Friday that Senate should set up an investigative panel to investigate the DSS Siege just the way he had sat as judge in his own investigation of customs tariffs evasion in the past. But the Nigerians who have shown concerns said any such attempt should not be allowed to stand.
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP)’s Senate President Bukola Saraki and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu are alleging that the Federal Government is planning to implicate and indict them along with some of their PDP colleagues over the recent invasion of the National Assembly by the Department of State Services (DSS).
The two senate presiding officers said they got information that the government was planning to use the preliminary report submitted by Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris to link them to the invasion.
The DEFENDER has earlier reported that the claim of an intelligence report alerting over plot to smuggle weapons and other dangerous items into the National Assembly upon which the sacked DG DSS acted unilaterally was more of the way of Saraki and his PDP political colleagues than they wanted Nigerians to believe.
Not too long, that same Saraki and Ekweremadu, who have severally been accused of having penchant for framing fake allegations, came out with another alarm premising their latest claim of FG plotting against them on information they got.
“If the DG DSS had consulted the Presidency over the earlier such information of weapons to be smuggled into the Assembly complex, and we believe that intelligence report unilaterally acted upon by him was from these same Saraki and Ekweremadu and it is obvious except liars who will say they do not know, he should not have fallen into their antics like he did,” a Concerned Citizens group told The DEFENDER Friday night, adding that they got no information anywhere except that they have analysed the interim report to see that it is over for them.
Like it used to happen while the sun of Saraki was still successfully shining in the Senate, the embattled Senate President had reportedly attempted on Friday that Senate should set up an investigative panel to investigate the DSS Siege just the way he had sat as judge in his own investigation of customs tariffs evasion in the past. But the Nigerians who have shown concerns said any such attempt should not be allowed to stand, adding that, “They should just thank God who has made the same Buhari they so much hate to have bequeathed to Nigeria the rule of law they are now beneficiaries of. But the same rule of law will not make them escape justice.”
In a statement by Saraki and Ekweremadu’s spokesmen, Yusuph Olaniyonu and Uche Anichukwu, the two presiding officers said after receiving the interim report, the price resolved to constitute a closet panel.
They alleged that the mandate of the closet panel to review the report and submit a final recommendation was to turn facts on the head and blame the invasion on them to present them as having worked in tandem with the sacked Director General of the DSS Lawal Daura.
“We have been reliably informed that instead of the Presidency to set up a public inquiry or judicial commission to probe last Tuesday’s invasion of the National Assembly as being demanded by the general public, they have commenced a process of manipulation and fabrication.
“The Presidency has set up a closet panel, which would work to a predetermined conclusion in which they will now claim that the Senate President and the Deputy Senate President worked in collusion with ex-DG of DSS, LawalDaura to stage the invasion.
“Their plot only failed because the media, particularly social media, Nigerians and international community responded very swiftly as some legislators who came into the complex were refused entry by gun-wielding, hooded security operatives.
“Now, they want to turn the facts on its head and blame us for their botched plot against democracy. This is their new tactic and plot as we approach the period of the 2019 polls,” the statement said.
